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Tiger Force: Glass House

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by holliy
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 30/08/2005
  • Label: Marquis Cha Cha
  • Tracks: 1 - Glass House / 2 - Teeth
  • Info: Ltd edition 7"

It's Le Tigre crossing swords with Bis while RATM hand round the half time oranges and At the Drive In shove microphones down the spectators' throats. It's drum machines, samples, half-rapped/half-screamed boy-girl vocals, grinding noise and a hell of a lot of fuzz and distortion. It's clumsy and awkward, mal-timed and flailing, repetitive and driving, and it sounds like it was recorded in a studio sponsored by Fisher Price. It's also very loud, very driving and not a little dizzying.

It's Tiger Force; and it's rather good. Angry music, certainly, but far be it from me to guess what it's angry about – the lyrics are either indecipherably cryptic or simply indecipherable. Determinedly DIY and belligerently playful/experimental, Tiger Force are at much at home with "recorder freakouts" as they are with screaming guitars, and for this we applaud them. If you're not averse to having your ears punished by walls of hissing electro fuzz and like a bit of an edge to your originality, you could do worse than check out Tiger Force.


Tiger Force - Go Back To Your Glass House/Teeeeth

Marquis Cha Cha is putting out some tasty singles

Tiger Force - Go Back To Your Glass House/Teeeeth

This band is ace. Seriously worth checking out, this is so weird, i was looking at this the other day.

Tiger Force - Go Back To Your Glass House/Teeeeth

Definitely ace, and they also feature on the forthcoming "Live At Purr" CD/DVD (on Purr Records, unsurprisingly enough) live album along with Snow White, Manic Cough, Pete And The Pirates, Comanechi, Wet Dog, Fog Band and Park Attack. Out about October time (date to be confirmed).

Dave
Purr Records bloke

Tiger Force - Go Back To Your Glass House/Teeeeth

If you've got Melt-Banana you don't need Tiger Force. The review aptly describes M-B. In fact, when I saw TF live they had a ten-second song called 'Cat and Cakey', which proves that they are ripping M-B off as fast as they can.